Essays on Animal Welfare

What do you first see in a zoo and what haven’t you paid any attention to? Zoos, a bunch of kids running around tourists taking pictures, sounds normal; except it doesn’t. No one realises that these animals are put up to this and are truly...

The first thing that come into the head when people hear ‘wild animals’ is that they are and exist in nature, they cannot be domesticated. They grow up in the wild, so that they face risk being killed by their predators, particularly when it comes...

Faith in humanity restored! Circus Roncalli from Germany is putting an end to animal cruelty by using holograms instead of real animals. And the shows became even more spectacular. Circus Roncalli was founded in 1976 which makes it one of the oldest and most famous...

I grew up in an animal enthusiast family. My father raised us alongside a number of animals which included dogs, cats, rabbits, partridges and many more. In fact, there was one instance where my father and I brought home an abandoned donkey to which my...

Social and behavioural scientists have paid little attention to the causes of animal abuse, despite the pervasive nature of such abuse and the tremendous suffering involved; Bryant and Snizek in fact, have gone as far as to state that no area of human-animal behaviour is...

Chained to a fence in the city of Brooklyn, New York, a Pit/lab mix sat in the cold freezing rain, unable to seek shelter. Without any possibility of breaking free, luck came his way when Officer Michael Pascal, a member of the New York Police...

I am sure most of you have seen the brutal videos of animals getting abused to try and spread awareness, but have you ever thought about how many innocent animals die each year from the cruel actions of humans? I believe that when owning an...

The Giant Pandas are one of the exclusive animals with its unique white and black coat, also is cherished by the world and appraised as the national treasure of China. Pandas are mainly settled in temperate forests around the forests of southwest China, where they...

Biological diversity, or more commonly known as biodiversity, describes the world’s variety and richness of species with their unique traits, genetic variability, and distribution. One of its simpler definitions refers to the arrangement of all life on Earth. This also includes ecosystem processes that occur...

Invasive species are any non-native species introduced into an environment. The introduced species are normally transported to different countries through human activities. This transportation has been both accidental and by design. Human travel across the globe has resulted in a negative impact in many countries...